Northern Virginia Bridge Association

American Contract Bridge League Unit 218

Grand National Teams (GNT)

The ACBL Grand National Teams (Wikipedia
article) is one of two annual ACBL-wide "Open" contests in bridge. The other is a pair
contest, the North American Pairs (NAP).
Both contests begin with grass-roots qualifying at the local level and end with a national competition at a
North American Bridge Championship (NABC). Each of the 25 ACBL districts may send up to four different
skill-level teams to the national GNT finals. Each district has different rules for selecting the teams to
represent them.

In our district, The GNTs start with team game qualifiers in clubs. Once you've qualified by either
winning two matches in a club qualifying game or finishing in the top 1/2 of your stratum, you can then
form a team with other qualifiers and register to participate in the District 6 Finals. The
District 6 Final competition has four skill level events - Open
(0-∞), A (0-6000),B
(0-2500) and C (0-500/NLM). Each winning team in each skill
level receives a cash stipend to help offset the costs of representing District 6 at the Summer NABC.
You qualify in the clubs as an individual, not as a team, so you can put together a team of
any 4-6 qualified people (all from District 6) to participate in the District
competition.

IMPORTANT: Your team must pre-register for the finals at least nine days before your
respective final by mailing your team member list and $100.00 payment made out to District 6 to:

Lynn Jones
10 Tenby Court
Timonium, MD 21093,

You can participate in more than one final if you qualify. The dates of the finals are intentionally
staggered to allow this. Click HERE to
see the dates, times and locations where the 2018 District 6 Finals are to be held.

Most clubs in northern Virigina and southern Maryland run at least one GNT team game during the qualifying
season. Click HERE to see a chart of
known DC metro area club qualifying events.